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Job Swapping Changes Honeybee DNA
Honeybees in a hive have fairly identical genes. The queen is the mother, a very few drones are the fathers, and those drones are closely related to each other anyway. But “epigenetic” changes in the...
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Why Are First-Year Students Called Freshmen?
Image credit: Duke.edu There was a time when almost every university student was a sophomore. Well, a sophister, to be exact, but that’s where the word “sophomore” originated. A sophist was a wise...
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The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
University of Utah computer science professor Matthew Might welcomes his new graduate students each year by explaining a PhD by drawing, literally, “the big picture” in graph form. That series of...
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Cute Puppy Pics May Be the Key to Better Concentration
Thanks to a new study from Hiroshima University, you can argue that your time spent swooning over adorable puppy pics on Reddit is justified. Turns out, taking a few minutes to look at a photo of...
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The Most Popular Pages in Medieval Manuscripts
How can you know which pages in a medieval manuscript were the most popular? Kathryn Rudy of the University of St. Andrews reasoned that the finger smudges left by readers would be a good indicator:...
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Quiz: Britney Spears or Brittany S. Pierce?
“Oops, I did it again!” is something both pop sensation Britney Spears and Glee character Brittany S. Pierce should be saying after their vocal missteps. They’re both infamous for saying wacky things....
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God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
Did you know today would have been Kurt Vonnegut’s 90th birthday? In memory of one of the greatest writers of the last century, here is a look back at the author’s incredible life. His Career Choice...
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Scientist: Humans Have Been Getting Stupider for Thousands of Years
Idiocracy wasn’t a movie, but a documentary. Gerald Crabtree, the leader of a genetics laboratory at Stanford University, argues that humans evolved to be hunter/gatherers–a high risk occupation that...
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Researchers are trying to determine the risk of us being wiped out by our own technological creations. Based at the University of Cambridge, the “Cent…
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Move Over, Rover — Here Comes the Space Hedgehog
Stanford University researchers are working with NASA to design a spiked space apparatus capable of maneuvering efficiently across asteroid and moon surfaces on which low gravity and rough terrain...
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